ONTOSOFT

The OntoSoft project is part of the NSF EarthCube Initiative. The NSF EarthCube Initiative aims to enable scientists to solve challenging problems that span diverse geoscience domains. This requires not only data sharing, it requires new forms of knowledge sharing. The focus of OntoSoft is to promote knowledge sharing about the software developed for geosciences... Geosciences software embodies important scientific knowledge that should be explicitly captured, curated, managed, and disseminated. Recurring issues of provenance and uncertainty in the context of data could be better addressed with improved treatment of geoscience software: it is easy to see that nothing describes data more precisely than the software that generates or uses the data. Software is implicitly linked to its documentation, datasets it uses or produces, publications, and ultimately scientific theories. Scientists recognize the value of sharing software to avoid replicating effort or to reproduce results from..